Micah Brooks

Micah Brooks (14 May 1775-7 July 1857) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NY 21) from 4 March 1815 to 3 March 1817, succeeding Samuel M. Hopkins and Nathaniel W. Howell and preceding Benjamin Ellicott and John C. Spencer.

Biography
Micah Brooks was born in Brooksvale, Connecticut in 1775, and he became a pioneer and one of the earliest surveyors of western New York. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1806 and served in the State Assembly from 1808 to 1809, as a colonel on the frontier during the War of 1812, as a Major-General in the State Infantry from 1828 to 1830, in the US House of Representatives from 1815 to 1817, and as a John Quincy Adams presidential elector in 1824.